Gaza Quotes

• I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Israel, Democracy

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• Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Stars, Men, Gaza Strip

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• I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

  Nader al-Masri

  Training, Levels, Coaches

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• I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.

  John Bolton

  Thinking, Gaza Strip, Ruling

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• It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.

  Noam Chomsky

  Air, Appreciate, Trying

  "Gaza’s Dirty Little Secret Finally Revealed By Reporters" by Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

  Izzeldin Abuelaish

  Would Be, Abnormal, Violence

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• Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no-one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons - they don’t have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost every day.

  Banksy

  Drinking, Cutting, Air

  "Banksy in Gaza: Street artist goes undercover in the Strip" by Raziye Akkoc, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 26, 2015.

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• We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves... Let us make our reckoning today.

  Moshe Dayan

  Blood, Gaza Strip, Demand

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Strong, Resistance, Crowded Places

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• I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

  Nader al-Masri

  Running, Gaza Strip, Feels

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• The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.

  Michael Ben-Ari

  Israel, Years, Goal

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• There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!

  Michael Ben-Ari

  Israel, Looks, World

  "Israeli Leaders Made Some Astonishing Comments Over The Weekend" by Geoffrey Ingersoll, www.businessinsider.com. November 19, 2012.

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• There are no innocents in Gaza. Mow them down kill the Gazans without thought or mercy.

  Michael Ben-Ari

  Mercy

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• My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Home, Grandmother, Government

  "Commons debate on Gaza - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.

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• My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

  Desmond Tutu

  Military, Silence, Community

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• The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Support, West, Firsts

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• I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, Gaza Strip, West

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• In 1949, the country of Palestine was partitioned after the war in such a way that the State of Israel-proper consisted of 78 percent of this country of Palestine. What was left to the Arabs was 22 percent, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

  Uri Avnery

  Country, War, Israel

  Source: progressive.org

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• Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more

  Yousef Munayyer

  People, Strikes, Mourn

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• It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers. These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States.

  Edward Said

  Taken, Years, Support

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel and Israelis, that they long ago ceased viewing this conflict with any remnant of objectivity.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Emotional, Israel, Attachment

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• I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.

  Michael Franti

  Years, Gaza Strip, Iraq

  "On the Side of the Peacemakers". Interview with Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. March 13, 2006.

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• I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Thinking, Israel, Invading

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• The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

  Alcee Hastings

  Israel, Organization, Hezbollah

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• What's very interesting about the violence in Lebanon and the violence in Iraq and the violence in Gaza is this: These are all groups of terrorists who are trying to stop the advance of democracy. They're trying to thwart the will of millions who simply want a normal, hopeful life. That's what we're seeing.

  George W. Bush

  Interesting, Hopeful, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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